Word: redoubtable
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With Diana it's off on a grand trip--a redoubt in the Caribbean, white-water rafting outside Aspen, Colorado, a tour of Disney World. No one questions that Charles loves his kids, but Diana is far more demonstrative, hugging them often or throwing herself into their activities, whether it's shooting the rapids or schussing the slopes. But fun with Mum is a very public affair. She is the most photographed woman in the world, who may call the media before an outing...
...somber first anniversary this month of its war of independence, Chechnya is fragmented, impoverished and, from every sign, still indomitable. The Russians control the northern two-thirds of the country, but the southern, mountainous third remains a defiant redoubt. Neither side can claim a victory. After a heroic stand against Russian ground and air forces, Dudayev lost the battle for the capital, Grozny, in February, along with his heavy weapons and access to the country's oil refineries. Expert analysts estimate that Dudayev's hard-core forces may be down to around 2,000. Nonetheless, his separatist government managed...
With military help from neighboring countries, Georgian government regulars and rebel forces have each scored important victories against the other. Using Russian-supplied T-72 tanks and personnel, troops loyal to Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze drove the rebels into their last redoubt, in the western region of the republic. But with the help of reinforcements from Abkhazia, the separatists staged a powerful counteroffensive, recapturing an important town...
...MOMENT WAS MORE MARX BROTHERS THAN classic Mafia. Wrapped in a bath towel at his wooded redoubt near Mount Olive, New Jersey, fugitive Anthony Salvatore Casso, 52, one of the nation's most feared Mafia leaders, surrendered -- hands up high, dripping wet -- to an FBI SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow...
...Idaho white separatist Randy Weaver seemed willing to die for his piece of land too, as he holed up in his cabin near the hamlet of Naples, surrounded by FBI agents, federal marshals and local police officers. Authorities put his mountaintop redoubt under surveillance after he failed to appear for a February 1991 trial on charges of selling two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent. Two weeks ago, Weaver's 13-year-old son Samuel and federal marshal William Degan were killed in a gun battle as lawmen approached the cabin. Prosecutors charged Weaver's comrade Kevin Harris...